What turns women on (was forum=28)Follow

Oh God, BONOBOS!

The ****** don't lie.

Man. I never get invited to those parties.

Personally, I just want the dishes washed and the living room vacuumed. God that turns me on.

While it's interesting I suppose, I'd give the study little regard personally. There are so many differences between men and women regarding sex on a pycho-social level that I can't even begin to imagine how one would control for it. One result of the study: women get turned on by ****, period. Another could be that women are generally more empathetic and therefor have a reaction to anyone being sexually excited since they're more likely to put themselves "into" the scenario vicariously. Another could be that women would find the entire study more arousing due to the somewhat "forbidden" nature of sitting in a room with a measuring device stuck up their ****** while they watch **** and answer "dirty" questions. Hell, half of them were probably so thrilled to have a guy paying attention to their sexual arousal that he would have discovered they were "turned on" by writing a grocery list.

Nexa

I've always wondered about the kind of people they find for these surveys. Most people are too busy/embarrassed/shy to take part. Are the results only applicable to the 10% of the available and willing population? (at the time of the study).

Just sayin' this is not the kind of thing I would take part in

Don't start in. I could become hysterical and you're too far away to help!

I can't decide if I should reply amusingly or calculatingly wait to see who else gets that reference. (aside from Samira, obviously, who I share some sort of bizarre collective unconscious link with)

My first thought was "chimp ****, really?"

Having got past that, I can sort of understand the findings. I think if you redid that experiment and added in a measure of brain activity you would find a difference in what's going on in men and women's brains. My layperson's hypothesis is that women perform more processing on the images that they are exposed to, whereas for men it goes straight from eyes to nether region (generally speaking, I'm sure their are some people who react in an atypical way for their gender). On the other hand, maybe women process less in terms of physical arousal, men have a reaction based on "would I want to be having sex in this situation?", whereas women react on a "is this a sexual situation?" without (their body) adding in a judgement on whether they would want to be involved.

As for the differences between physical readings and self-report it could be that a) women were reporting in terms of what they would want to be involved in (rather than if they were physically aroused) and/or b) they recognised the physical arousal (so it's not a case of women not knowing what they are feeling), but didn't want to own up to finding it arousing (there's quite a few things that arouse me that I wouldn't necessarily want to tell someone else "yeah, that totally turned me on").

I think this is quite an interesting topic, I'm a bit of a prude, so would probably never get around to reading up on studies in the are, but I'm curious about if this has any possible link to men and women vs ****. Most anecdotal evidence suggests that men love them some visual stimuli when it comes to ************* women I don't see talking about it as much (but maybe I just don't look in the right places :P). Maybe men react more predictably to sexual imagery because their arousal is more stimuli based, whereas women tend to self arouse through thinking about things (rather than looking at them) and so don't process in the same way as men do.

Enough to get dizzy?